Word: richer
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...Treasury, argues Donner, is by far the richer for all this. Since World War II, G.M. has brought into the U.S. through dividends from its subsidiaries and exports from its U.S. plants a staggering $5 billion in foreign earnings. Of this, almost 25% came during the past three years to help out when the gold overflow became critical. (One reason why Detroit raises little outcry against foreign car sales in the U.S.: last year the U.S. spent $400 million on foreign cars, but exported autos and auto parts worth three times as much-$1.2 billion...
...text is less cloying and the photography richer in the section on "Activities." It's such a relief to see pictures of people for a change. Elsewhere, the Yearbook's photographers have invested heavily in shots of architecture, and while they do walls and doors and towers very nicely, these pictures aren't very interesting. Some of the "Sports" action shots are really exciting, and there is an absorbing, but kind of muddled, article on Harvard Athletics by Mike Lottman. (The Yearbook metes out a piece of wry justice in its section on "Magazines": it misquotes a CRIMSON editor...
...earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in a pond; and whenever you're and, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer...
...opera. Best of all, at 5 ft. 8 in. and 150 Ibs., Swedish Farm Girl Nilsson is capable of lending an air of physical credibility to Wagner that his operas never had at the Met while Flagstad and Traubel trundled massively across the stage. Unlike Flagstad, who had a richer, lower voice, Nilsson believes in imbibing large doses of Italian opera to escape the "German consonants" and the "Wagnerian...
...pointed out that few people want to live in a city today and therefore cities have few friends." As people move to the suburbs, the city gradually decays into slums. Yet, while the richer taxpayers move out, the city's expenses remain the same, he said...